RECENT WORK

Water is a force of nature after all. Add paint, paper, brushes, gravity, and amazing things happen. This fascinates me and is reflected in my recent work as well as my abstract work. There are representative and abstract works here mostly using themes suggested by nature.

Transparency

Watercolor on Arches Paper 18 x 24 2016

"Down Home Farm"

22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Giclees available

This is from a day at the fabulous garden at the Down Home Farm in El Dorado, a Placerville Arts plein air painting event. Kind of excited about the idea of painting statuary, they pose without wiggling!

My friend travelled to Bhutan and brought back incredible pictures of temples on these cliffs in the Himalayas. This appealed to me as another in my series of cliff dwellings, particularly suitable to watercolor because of gravity pulling water and pigment down.

A lone Lodgepole Pine growing out of a rock outcropping in Lower Blue Lake in the Sierras, together forever.

A Quiet Place

2016 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Dreaming Camellias

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

This painting came out of preparation for painting at the Sacramento Camellia Festival, but as it progressed, the camellias took on a wild life of their own. It won the Don and Dorothy Steed Award in the Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons Annual Membership Show, 2015.

Deciduous Azalea

2015 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - 22 x 15

Available

Goodnight My Lovelies

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Available

This was painted for a Camellia Festival, with lots of wet in wet. As it developed it began looking like blooms in the evening with stars.

Bristlecone Pine

2015 - 7 x 22 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Available

Bristlecone pines, 1,000 - 5,000 years old. This is a dead one, on the Cottonwood Vista Trail. At 11,000 feet probably there are not many organisms to rot the wood, the dead trees look like sculptures, monuments to earth and sky, even the live trees have little live branches but mostly branches that have become statues.

The Manzanar Monument is the only monument to those who died while interned in the Manzanar Internment Camp between 1942 and 1945 and are buried here. The characters read "Memorial to the Dead".

El Capitan

2016 - 22 x 30 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Spaceship Earth

2015 - 36 x 25- Watercolor on Arches Paper

Sold

Granite

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Near Wright's Lake

2013 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Pushing The Boundary

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - $300

Mining Town

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

DUSK

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

The King Fire

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - $300

Above the Tree Line

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Winter Quiet

2016 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Sutter Buttes & Marshes

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Available

Crevice

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Holding On

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - $300

PLEIN AIR

I began painting in plein air and I will continue to paint in plein air. It is challenging and interesting, the way light, shadow, color, everything is in a state of change, including my journey in painting. . .

More wet-on-wet . . .

More suggestive, moody or atmospheric in style . . .

. . . rather than a specific representation.

Painting outside is the most delightful and spiritual way. . .

. . . to be in nature . . .

. . . to contemplate the beauty and magic of wilderness . . .

. . . quiet

. . . light

. . . critters that show up in the silence.

Tower Theatre

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Capitol

22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Painted plein air 2015

Available

December Light

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Foggy Morning

2015 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Fall River

2014 - 11 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Winter Solstice

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Sutter-Jensen Community Park

2012 - 20 x 14 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Sacramento Victorian

22 x 30 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Painted in plein air, 2012

SOLD

January on the American

2014 - 22 x 15 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Sold

Folsom Historic District

18 x 12 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - Painted plein air 2015

Available

Flamingoes

2015 - 11 x 14 - Watercolor on Arches Paper

Plein Air

Available

MOUNTAINS

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all ove

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~Pablo Picasso

ARCHITECTURE

Folsom Historic District

2015 - Watercolor on Arches Paper painted in Plein Air - 18 x 24

Available

TAO

2015 - Watercolor on Arches Paper - 22 x 15

My friend travelled to Bhutan and brought back incredible pictures of temples on these cliffs in the Himalayas. This appealed to me as another in my series of cliff dwellings, particularly suitable to watercolor because of gravity pulling water and pigment down.